The Bill James Handbook is now in its fourth year, and
I recommend buying it instead of The Sporting News Baseball Guide and
Baseball Register. The Handbook is a much better successor to the old
Major League Handbook and Player Profiles than the other two. The Bill
James Handbook provides comprehensive stats from the previous year,
and it helps my understanding of each team tremendously when you can
get an idea of how a player has performed recently. 448 pp.